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Giving CRediT Where it’s Due: What journals need to know about the Contributor Roles Taxonomy

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“Today, the research ecosystem is more varied and complex than ever before. Collaborations are rising across disciplines and around the globe, with scholars taking on increasing responsibilities, from securing funding to curating unprecedented data sets and everything in between. Yet many of these contributions go unrecognized.

Author lists often fail to account for the myriad roles in research development, leading to inequities in attribution and opaqueness around research processes. But that’s all changing with the rise of the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (a.k.a. CRediT), now an ANSI/NISO standard. This webinar will offer a deep dive into the what, why, and how of CRediT implementation for scholarly journals. We’ll cover:

How CRediT simplifies verifying types/levels of research contribution
The roles of editors and scholars in implementing CRediT and how to help authors distinguish appropriate CRediT options
Key benefits of CRediT for journals and the wider research community and ways to leverage them…”

Evaluation of researchers in action: Updates from UKRI and a discussion on the utility of CRediT | DORA

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“Funding organizations play a key role in setting the tone for evaluation standards and practices. In recent years, an increasing number of funders have shifted their evaluation practices away from an outsized focus on quantitative metrics (e.g., H-Index, journal impact factors, etc.) as proxy measures of quality and towards more holistic means of evaluating applicants. At one of DORA’s March Funder Community of Practice (CoP) meetings, we heard how the UK Research Institute (UKRI) has implemented narrative style CVs for choosing promising research and innovation talent. At the second March Funder CoP meeting, we held a discussion with Alex Holcombe, co-creator of the Tenzing tool, about how the movement to acknowledge authors for the broad range of roles they play to contribute to a research project could also be applied to help funders in decision making processes….”

Announcing CRediT Taxonomy support for all Scholastica products

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“We’re excited to announce the ability to add CRediT Taxonomy fields to Scholastica’s peer review system submission form and machine-readable metadata exports, as well as the option to include CRediT details in the body and metadata of articles typeset or published via Scholastica….”

A Manifesto for Rewarding and Recognising Team Infrastructure Roles | Zenodo

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Abstract:  Abstract: Large research teams benefit from people with diverse skills.This has necessitated the growth of professional team infrastructure roles (TIRs) who support research through specialised skills. TIRs play an important role in ensuring the success of a research project, but are neglected under current reward and recognition procedures that focus on research articles as the primary way for scholarly communication. We propose system level changes to recognise TIR contributions that will affect scholarly communication in the long term. We particularly welcome feedback from regions other than the EU and US, since our suggestions are based on our personal experiences of the systems in these regions.

 

A Manifesto for Rewarding and Recognising Team Infrastructure Roles | Zenodo

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Abstract:  Abstract: Large research teams benefit from people with diverse skills.This has necessitated the growth of professional team infrastructure roles (TIRs) who support research through specialised skills. TIRs play an important role in ensuring the success of a research project, but are neglected under current reward and recognition procedures that focus on research articles as the primary way for scholarly communication. We propose system level changes to recognise TIR contributions that will affect scholarly communication in the long term. We particularly welcome feedback from regions other than the EU and US, since our suggestions are based on our personal experiences of the systems in these regions.

 

The importance of copyright and shared norms for credit in Open Educational Resources

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Open Educational Resources (OER) are reducing barriers to education while allowing creators the opportunity to share their work with the world and continue owning copyright of their work. To support new authors and adaptors in the OER space, we provide an overview of common considerations that creators and adaptors of OER should make with respect to issues related to copyright in the context of OER. Further, and importantly, a challenge in the OER space is ensuring that original creators receive appropriate credit for their work, while also respecting the credit of those who have adapted work. Thus, in addition to providing important considerations when it comes to the creation of open access works, we propose shared norms for ensuring appropriate attribution and credit for creators and adaptors of OER.

Reviewer Credits and Science Open cooperate to make Peer Review visible | STM Publishing News

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“Reviewer Credits (RC), the global expert network that makes peer review visible and helps researchers get recognition for their work, is partnering with ScienceOpen (SO), the research, networking, and discovery platform. Together, both companies will highlight research articles in ScienceOpen’s database that have been reviewed by Reviewer Credit members. Moreover, the reviewer status from RC will be reflected in SO’s user profiles….”

Equitable Open-Source for web3

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“The tools that build the internet have steeped too long. For the past two decades, big tech has made trillions off the generosity of visionary developers and web pioneers… never thanking, never mentioning, and certainly never paying. At tea, we’re brewing something to change that by enabling developers (you) to continue doing what you love, while earning what you deserve….

We’re calling on all open?source devs to authenticate their Github with tea.

 

Developers who have contributed to OSS will be entitled to a variety of rewards, including minted NFT badges to honor your work so far. This is your chance to be an early member of our community: take a sip while it’s hot!…”

Developing tools and practices to promote open and efficient science

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“In this talk, I’ll introduce three new tools that aim to improve the efficiency of researchers’ work and the accumulation of knowledge. I’ll argue that minimizing extra workload and increasing the ease of use have key importance at the introduction of new research practices. The tools that I’ll share are:

The Transparency Checklist, a consensus-based general ShinyApp checklist to improve and document the transparency of research reports;
Tenzing, a solution to simplify the CRediT-based documentation and reporting the contributions to scholarly articles; and
the Multi-analyst guidance, a consensus-based guide for conducting and documenting multi-analyst studies….”

Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) Formalized as ANSI/NISO Standard | NISO website

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“The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) today announces its publication of the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) as an ANSI/NISO standard, Z39.104-2022. The taxonomy, which was originally developed in 2014, describes 14 roles that represent the typical range of contributors to scientific scholarly outputs, and that can be used to enable recognition and facilitate transparency to the myriad contributions to research in our increasingly networked scholarly ecosystem. CRediT is already in use by more than 50 organizations, a majority of which are scholarly publishers, collectively representing thousands of journals….”

Open science at EMBL: a transparent way of working | EMBL

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“EMBL has released a new Open Science Policy as part of its ongoing commitment to drive trust, transparency, and more inclusive research across the life sciences….

 

The Open Science Policy will expand on existing practice, and contribute to positive culture change across EMBL and more widely. To ensure this, the policy covers research assessment and fair attribution of credit. The policy also puts in place guidelines for EMBL staff regarding open and timely access to research results via publications, data, and software….

The State of Open Data 2021

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Key findings from this year’s survey

73% support the idea of a national mandate for making research data openly available
52% said funders should make the sharing of research data part of their requirements for awarding grants
47% said they would be motivated to share their data if there was a journal or publisher requirement to do so
About a third of respondents indicated that they have reused their own or someone else’s openly accessible data more during the pandemic than before
There are growing concerns over misuse and lack of credit for open sharing

Industry not harvest: Principles to minimise collateral damage in impact assessment at scale | Impact of Social Sciences

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“As the UK closes the curtains on the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF2021) and embarks on another round of consultation, there is little doubt that, whatever the outcome, the expectation remains that research should be shown to be delivering impact. If anything, this expectation is only intensifying. Fuelled by the stated success of REF 2014, the appetite for impact assessment also appears – at least superficially – to be increasing internationally, albeit largely stopping short of mirroring a fully formalised REF-type model. Within this context, the UK’s Future Research Assessment Programme was recently announced, with a remit to explore revised or alternative approaches. Everything is on the table, so we are told, and the programme sensibly includes the convening of an external body of international advisors to cast their, hopefully less jaded eyes upon proceedings….”

 

Rescognito

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“Rescognito is a free service for recognizing and promoting Open Research. It can be used in two ways:

1. Use Rescognito for recognition: Search for a colleague. Click to view their Open Ledger. Click the “Recognize” button displayed next to their name or publications. Award and claim CRediT for a particular publication (video explainer).

2. Use Rescognito to create free research checklists (Beta): click on https://rescognito.com/createchecklist, enter a DOI and create your own free checklist to share with colleagues….”

Can We Re-engineer Scholarly Journal Publishing? An Interview with Richard Wynne, Rescognito – The Scholarly Kitchen

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“Let me say out loud what almost everyone involved in scholarly publishing knows: the transition to Open Access will not by itself significantly reduce the cost of publishing, nor is it likely to improve the culture around research incentives. Consequently, there remains a pressing need to reduce costs and improve research culture; but in ways that do not dismantle the proven — but expensive — benefits of peer review and editorial evaluation….

Despite the transition to Open Access, many researchers, librarians, and research funders continue to feel short-changed and profoundly dissatisfied….

Scholarly publishers and research funders continue to focus primarily on the transition to Open Access, but embracing a new payment model will not by itself fix customer satisfaction problems or reduce costs. At some point there will be a need to articulate a more coherent explanation of how scholarly publishers add value, and to implement efficient systems that reflect this understanding. Assertion workflows are one possible solution to this problem.”